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Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion, and cultural nati onalism /

Sarkar, Tanika, 1949-

Hindu wife, Hindu nation : community, religion, and cultural nati onalism / Hindu wife, Hindu nation Tanika Sarkar. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001. - viii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation -- Domes ticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal -- 2 Talking About Scandals -- Religion, Law and Love in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal -- 3 A Book of Her Own, A Life of Her Own -- The Autobiography of a Ninet eenth-Century Woman -- 4 Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of -- a Po litical Agenda -- 5 Imagining Hindu Rashtra -- The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankimchandra's Writings -- 6 Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism -- Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife 7 A Pre-History of Rights? The Age of Consent -- Debates in Colonial Bengal -- 8 Natio nalist Iconography -- The Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century -- Benga li Literature -- 9 Aspects of Contemporary Hindutva Theology -- The Voi ce of Sadhvi Rithambhara.

0253340462 (cloth : alk. paper)

2001-039276


Hindu women--Social conditions.
Hindu women--Government policy--India.
Women in popular culture--India.
Women in Hinduism--India.
Hinduism and politics--India.


India--Politics and government.
India--Religious life and customs.

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